Understanding Tiers, Interventions and Supports

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• Understanding Tiers, Interventions and Supports
• Presentation Adopted from NESD

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• What do we do when students dont learn?
• Using the Response to Intervention framework will
  create an effective process for all teachers,
  administrators and support personnel to answer
  this question.

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What is Pyramid Response to Intervention?

• It is the practice of providing high-quality
  instruction and interventions that match
  student's needs as well as considering students
  learning rate over time and level of performance
  to make important educational decisions.

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It is

• RTI is an approach that provides high quality,
  standards-based instruction/intervention that is
  matched to students academic, social-emotional,
  and behavioral needs.

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It is..

• a continuum of intervention tiers with increasing
  levels of intensity and duration
• involves educational decisions that are based on
  data derived from frequent monitoring of student
  performance and rate of learning.

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Timely, Directive, Systematic, Flexible Support

• Using this process allows students to receive
  timely interventions at the first indication that
  they need more time and support.
• This process should be directive rather than
  invitational, so that the students get the extra
  help they need, consistently and without
  interruption until they are successful.

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• Interventions are sequences to build upon each
  other
• from least to most restrictive
• from least to most intensive
• from what happens in every classroom for all
  children to what happens for individual students
  who need highly focused, targeted help.

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It is not.

• a program but rather a process for ensuring that
  all students learn.
• another add on.

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Three Tiers of Support
Intensive
Interventions focused on
closing the gap. TIER 3
Fewer students
Increasing intensity
Immediate and powerful targeted
interventions systematically applied and
monitored for any students not achieving.
TIER 2
A coherent and viable core curriculum that embeds
ongoing monitoring for all students.
TIER 1
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Why use this model?

• This model allows education to move toward a
  systematic, directive, and timely response to all
  children when they dont learn adequately or
  extensively regardless of labels or subgroups.

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Tier 1

• Approximately 75-80 of the student population
  will have their educational needs met by Tier 1
  interventions.

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Tier 1

• Tier 1 is simply good teaching!
• Educators respond to learning styles, strengths
  and weaknesses of each of their students.
• They offer a variety of supports to enable
  students to reach outcomes. This may be as easy
  as additional time to complete work or one on one
  mini lessons.
• The most important step a school can take to
  improve its core program is differentiating
  instruction.
• See http//interventionfirstrps.wordpress.com/

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Tier 2

• This level of the pyramid offers supplemental
  interventions implemented for students whose
  educational needs have not been met by the
  regular program.
• Small group interventions.
• 10-15 of the student population will benefit
  from Tier 2 interventions.

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Tier 3

• This level of the pyramid is where intensive
  individual interventions are implemented for
  students whose educational needs have not (can
  not?) been met in Tier 1 or Tier 2.
• 5-10 of the student population will require
  these types of interventions.

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Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
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An Effective Response to Intervention Pyramid

• begins with establishing identification,
  placement and monitoring processes.
• various school division roles (Teacher,
  Administrator, Counselor, Occupational Therapist,
  Educational Psychologist) are involved in these
  processes.